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by mdemare 19y ago
I love Joel for promoting the idea that working more than 40 hours a week is unproductive, but it does seem contrary to the startup mentality. Would startups be better off if their founders only worked 40 hours a week? I don't think so - wo
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by mdemare 19y ago
The next generation can't even form a sentence? Why does that strike me as hyperbole?
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by mdemare 19y ago
Looking better to YC is pretty much a zero-sum game. Try getting better at whatever it is that's important to your startup.
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by mdemare 19y ago
This is the best overview of sessions and cookies in Rails I've yet seen. Much better than Agile Development. Thanks!
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by mdemare 19y ago
Why is it in Spanish?
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Language Waves(tbray.org)
1 points by mdemare 19y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
This is simply an utterly brilliant and original way to explain the Chinese writing system! Still, in this age of 100dpi 24bit color monitors, why stick to monochrome line drawings for yingzi? One could create the world's first photorealist
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by mdemare 19y ago
A "thriving tech center" is overstating it a bit for Amsterdam, but we certainly have our share of small web start-ups, and there are plenty of programmers available. The atmosphere is great, the climate is no distraction, (but the nightlif
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by mdemare 19y ago
On the internet, nobody can see you fail. Peer pressure, weekly dinners, demo day - you can't really replicate that on the web. As for organising in Europe, where? London is very expensive, and nothing else springs to mind.
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by mdemare 19y ago
You misread my post, it isn't a rhetorical question, but an call for action. I've clarified it now.
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Y Not - YC rejects of the world, unite!
22 points by mdemare 19y ago|78 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'd argue that this involves changing the class of the receiver (I think that is what actually happens under the covers). Also, I think this would count as a mortal sin in production code (but a lot of fun nevertheless).
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by mdemare 19y ago
Teachers are operating "close to the limit of human capability"? Farmers? Policemen? Some professions are just more natural for people - programming on the other hand is fairly unnatural.
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by mdemare 19y ago
First, of course the principle of least surprise is good, but it doesn't apply here. No experienced Ruby programmer would look at 'a[0]' and think - oh, an index into an array. They know that it could mean many things, depending on the rece
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by mdemare 19y ago
In Ruby, the subscript operator is just another method name. There's no essential difference between an operator and a 'normal' method like to_s. To know which method is called, you need to know the class of the receiver and the method nam
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Some Mental Traps in Learning Ruby(talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com)
6 points by mdemare 19y ago|9 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
The fifth paragraph made me think. What if Google, Yahoo or Microsoft started a social network based on the addresses in their webmail apps? It would instantly be bigger than Facebook.
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There's less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye(economist.com)
23 points by mdemare 19y ago|12 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
Learning to program means mastering lots of new abstractions, becoming comfortable with them, and being able to use them. And I know that if I encounter too many new abstractions at a time, my mind simply shuts down. This happens each time
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by mdemare 19y ago
But they're only going 90MPH on average! I used to have a manager who claimed to drive from the Netherlands to the south of France at 120MPH all the way. With his wife and 3 children... Seriously, "For occasional spurts, 90MPH is not uncomm
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'm not a big fan of LOGO either. Drawing lines gets boring quickly. I'm reminded of picking a university. I went to two introductory CS courses. One had us drawing Mickey Mouse in Pascal on a old Mac, which gave me a deep hatred of Apple
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by mdemare 19y ago
Cool idea, but I really don't see my flatmates hanging out on social networks.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Good! It's about time! Gmail has lost its glamour a long time ago (in internet years). I'd like an integrated address book, calendar, rss reader, smarter views (think iTunes), account protection, guaranteed backups + real customer service,
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by mdemare 19y ago
Unless there's intelligent life, that seems out of the question (assuming no breakthroughs in lifespan extensions). 20 light years is a long way from home. If you took a picture of the night sky with a 1 zettapixel camera (mega giga tera p
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by mdemare 19y ago
The end result is not useful, but I learned a lot of new things about C and processes along the way. And I thought it was an inspiring exercise to go as far down to the metal as possible. It does make me feel guilty when programming Ruby t
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Create your own FORTH programming language(annexia.org)
19 points by mdemare 19y ago|2 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
I understand, but the problem is hard to describe succintly. But if you run the code, you'll understand at once what it does.
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by mdemare 19y ago
> using continuations to enumerate possibilities seems like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly I just want the fly dead. > Am I understanding correctly that your goal is just to arrive at the tail call of 'contract_sentence' in two
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by mdemare 19y ago
Strange that he chose "hello world" - being German, you'd expect "99 bottles of beer on the wall." Also, it's one thing to have bugs in your program, quite another to have your program devoured by them. Then again, he can use pesticides fo
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by mdemare 19y ago
Finally a programming medium ideally suited for Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

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